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Who is your favorite poet?

 
  54 votes, 9.1%

 
  49 votes, 8.3%

Sylvia Plath
 
  30 votes, 5.1%

 
  26 votes, 4.4%

 
  25 votes, 4.2%

T. S. Eliot (write-in)
 
  25 votes, 4.2%

 
  18 votes, 3.0%

Not sure yet (write-in)
 
  18 votes, 3.0%

 
  17 votes, 2.9%

William Blake (write-in)
 
  17 votes, 2.9%

 
  16 votes, 2.7%

Edgar Allan Poe, Shelley, Shakespeare and Jim Morrison, also Alfred Noyes
 
  15 votes, 2.5%

Walt Whitman (write-in)
 
  15 votes, 2.5%

Mary Oliver (write-in)
 
  13 votes, 2.2%

Robert frost (write-in)
 
  11 votes, 1.9%

 
  10 votes, 1.7%

 
  10 votes, 1.7%

Franz Kafka (write-in)
 
  10 votes, 1.7%

Jon Keats (write-in)
 
  10 votes, 1.7%

I'm not a fan of poetry
 
  10 votes, 1.7%

Lord Byron (write-in)
 
  10 votes, 1.7%

 
  9 votes, 1.5%

Bob Dylan
 
  8 votes, 1.4%

Pablo Neruda (write-in)
 
  8 votes, 1.4%

W. H. Auden (write-in)
 
  7 votes, 1.2%

Seamus Heaney (write-in)
 
  7 votes, 1.2%

W.B. Yeats (write-in)
 
  7 votes, 1.2%

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (write-in)
 
  6 votes, 1.0%

You shouldn't let poets lie to you. (write-in)
 
  6 votes, 1.0%

 
  5 votes, 0.8%

Charles Baudelaire
 
  5 votes, 0.8%

Andrew Hozier-Byrne (write-in)
 
  5 votes, 0.8%

Dante Alighieri (write-in)
 
  5 votes, 0.8%

I don't have one
 
  5 votes, 0.8%

Jim Morrison (write-in)
 
  4 votes, 0.7%

Wilfred Owen (write-in)
 
  4 votes, 0.7%

Arthur Rimbaud (write-in)
 
  4 votes, 0.7%

Maya Angelou (write-in)
 
  4 votes, 0.7%

Kendrick Lamar (write-in)
 
  4 votes, 0.7%

 
  3 votes, 0.5%

George Sterling (write-in)
 
  3 votes, 0.5%

Edward Lear (write-in)
 
  3 votes, 0.5%

Tomas Tranströmer or Kahlil Gibran (write-in)
 
  3 votes, 0.5%

Anne Sexton
 
  3 votes, 0.5%

Matsuo Basho (write-in)
 
  3 votes, 0.5%

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (write-in)
 
  3 votes, 0.5%

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (write-in)
 
  3 votes, 0.5%

Paul Celan (write-in)
 
  3 votes, 0.5%

Rabindera Nath Tagore (write-in)
 
  3 votes, 0.5%

 
  2 votes, 0.3%

 
  2 votes, 0.3%

 
  2 votes, 0.3%

Frank O'Hara (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.3%

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.3%

juana de ibarbourou (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.3%

Hugo Claus (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.3%

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.3%

A. S. Pushkin (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.3%

Sara Teasdale (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.3%

Georg Trakl (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.3%

Ivan Vazov (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.3%

Idea Vilariño (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.3%

Lang Leav (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.3%

James Joyce (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.3%

john donne (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.3%

Amanda Gorman (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.3%

 
  1 vote, 0.2%

Alfred Noyes
 
  1 vote, 0.2%

Robert Service (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.2%

Theodor Geisel (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.2%

San Juan de la Cruz (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.2%

John Keats and Giacomo Leopardi (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.2%

Victor Hugo (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.2%

Herman Hesse (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.2%

Rachel Rooney (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.2%

Marin Sorescu (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.2%

Philip Larkin (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.2%

Carol Ann Duffy (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.2%

JoAnna Novak (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.2%

Dylan Thomas (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.2%

Alejandra Pizarnik (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.2%

William wordsworth (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.2%

Big L
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Sonya Sones
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Cemal Süreya
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Cemal Süreya & Dulce María Loynaz
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

William McGonagall (write-in)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Joanna Novab (write-in)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Elizabeth Barrett browning (write-in)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%


Poll added by: ~☆~Autumn
Voting started on: Oct 21, 2017 12:00AM PDT
Ends at: Oct 31, 2033 11:59PM PDT


Comments Showing 1-29 of 29 (29 new)

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 ♥♥Mari♥♥ I really can't pick just one, to be honest. So I will name the ones I love in the order in which they appear above: Dickinson, Tennyson, Frost, Millay, Shelley, and Shakespeare. Oh, and I think that Keats and Plath should have been included in the poll list. The ones here are GREAT, though, Autumn!! : )


message 2: by ~☆~Autumn (new)

~☆~Autumn ♥♥Mari♥♥ wrote: "I really can't pick just one, to be honest. So I will name the ones I love in the order in which they appear above: Dickinson, Tennyson, Frost, Millay, Shelley, and Shakespeare. Oh, and I think tha..."


Thanks Mari for voting. Its been very hard for me also and I have changed my vote 3 times. You can add Plath! Her poems usually depress me but I will add her for you since you may not know how to do it.


message 3: by berthamason (last edited Nov 29, 2017 05:57PM) (new)

berthamason Why is Jim Morrison on this list? Perhaps replace him with, I don't know, Anne Sexton? Just a thought.


message 4: by ~☆~Autumn (new)

~☆~Autumn Poliana wrote: "Why is Jim Morrison on this list? Perhaps replace him with, I don't know, Anne Sexton? Just a thought."

Songwriters are also poets. Many songs are just pure poetry.


message 5: by Kat (new)

Kat Gale That's like asking me to pick a favorite star in the heavens!


message 6: by ~☆~Autumn (new)

~☆~Autumn Kat wrote: "That's like asking me to pick a favorite star in the heavens!"

Sirius which I think is the dog star.


message 7: by Steven (new)

Steven Meyer Poe is my favorite with Frost and Wordsworth right behind.


message 8: by Clare (new)

Clare G. I'm not a fan of poetry but I love Wilfred Owen


message 9: by Jasmine (last edited Mar 13, 2020 07:50AM) (new)

Jasmine There are two entries each for Pushkin and Frost. Keats too but the second entry has another poet attached so it doesn't count as a duplicate option, I suppose.


message 10: by a (new)

a simply could not choose between Baudelaire, Sexton, Dickinson, Millay, and Eliot...though for now Baudelaire it is


Amanda Artist Cat Rachel Rooney, I love her Language of Cat!! It relates to me so much 💕 !😻


message 12: by ClaraBelle (last edited Sep 22, 2020 04:16PM) (new)

ClaraBelle I love Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Bob Dylan, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edgar Allen Poe, and William Shakespeare.


message 13: by ClaraBelle (new)

ClaraBelle But even so I’m not a big fan or reader of poetry


message 14: by ClaraBelle (new)

ClaraBelle Steven wrote: "Poe is my favorite with Frost and Wordsworth right behind."
Same here ❤️😜


message 15: by ClaraBelle (new)

ClaraBelle Rottgrl88 wrote: "I respect poetry but I am not really a fan."

☝️My thoughts exactly ☝️


message 16: by Razvan (new)

Razvan Banciu Marin Sorescu, as I'm a country boy from Romania...


message 17: by Steven (new)

Steven Meyer My top three are Edgar Allan Poe, Maya Angelou and Robert Frost.


message 18: by Mekiah (new)

Mekiah Johnson To be fair, there's a lot of great poets, but one I enjoy is Mary Oliver.


indy ❁ ⋆⁺₊⋆ Mary Oliver, Ben Lerner, Adrienne Rich


Storm The Tiny Hooman ~hiatus~ I don't read poetry sadly but I did research on Edgar Allen Poe so I might read some from him.


message 21: by Rouh || رُوح (last edited Jan 15, 2023 12:03PM) (new)

Rouh || رُوح I read randomly picks for each so I can't honestly choose one but my favourites are many if we are talking about Arabian poets!!!!
Farouq Guwaidah

Gibran Kahlil Gibran

Nizar Qabbani

Mahmoud Darwish
Abd-El-Rahman Al-Abnudi ....ohhh!so much many ♥️✨


message 22: by ~☆~Autumn (new)

~☆~Autumn Asher wrote: "I don't read poetry sadly but I did research on Edgar Allen Poe so I might read some from him."

My best friend in the 4th grade loved The Raven so when I had to memorize poetry I chose it for my 100 lines. She really got me into reading Poe.


message 23: by Samala (new)

Samala Definitely Walt Whitman or Víctor Hugo, I do enjoy Edgar Allan Poe and William Shakespeare though


message 24: by ~☆~Autumn (new)

~☆~Autumn Samala (Elvis's Version) wrote: "Definitely Walt Whitman or Víctor Hugo, I do enjoy Edgar Allan Poe and William Shakespeare though"

Thanks for voting.


message 25: by Darcy (new)

Darcy My favorite poets are all spanish language writers. Pizarnik, Storni, Neruda, and Darío.


message 26: by ~☆~Autumn (new)

~☆~Autumn Darcy wrote: "My favorite poets are all spanish language writers. Pizarnik, Storni, Neruda, and Darío."

You can write them in!


message 27: by Loretta (new)

Loretta I really can’t pick a favorite. My love of poetry came the first time I read Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning which I’ve read more than once.

I also enjoy Emily Dickinson, William Shakespeare, William ShakespeareEdgar Allan Poe and Robert Browning.


message 28: by Nancy (new)

Nancy Picking just one is hard. My favorite changes with my mood. I went with the one I have on my bedside table currently.


message 29: by Loretta (new)

Loretta Nancy wrote: "Picking just one is hard. My favorite changes with my mood. I went with the one I have on my bedside table currently."

I definitely agree with your statement Nancy…😊


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